He Wanted To Know

"Is this the place where they answer questions?" asked the rough looking man as he entered the little back room in a newspaper office. "There's a man on the staff who makes a bluff at doing it, "said the sporting editor, "but he isn't here now. ' ' "Oh, well, maybe you'll do," said the stranger. "We don't answer verbal questions," protested the sporting editor. "Write your questions out and send theru in. " "It isn't much of a question, and I thought perhaps you" - "Oh, I don't kaow where the reference books are, " intermpted the newspaper man. "They wouldn'tdo you anygoodanyway, " said the stranger. "This isn't a book question ; it's an up to date, modern one. It's timely, you understand. " "Well, then, fire ahead. I may know sornet hing about it. " "It's the new woman" - "Stop there!" cried the sporting editor. "That's clear out of the sporting department. " "No, it isn't, " protested the stranger. "The bloomer girl belongs to that department along with the bicycles, doesu't she?"' "Maybe she does," replied the sporting editor. "I hadn't thought of that. Go ahead. " "Well, you see, I'm a Street car conductor. ' ' "Yes." "And I want to know if the bloomer girl will get oS the car backward like the"- But the sporting editor had thrown up boih hands as an intimation that the